Local scholar earns full ride to UNC Chapel Hill

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Mar 19, 2019 at 1:06 PMMar 19, 2019 at 1:33 PM

A Mountain Island Charter School senior has accepted the prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholarship to attend UNC Chapel Hill this fall.

Jake Hawkins, of Huntersville, is the Mount Holly charter school’s first recipient of the full-ride scholarship, which pays for four years of undergraduate tuition, room and board, and other costs. The cost to attend UNC Chapel Hill as an in-state undergraduate student exceeds $24,000 annually.

Hawkins has been enrolled at Mountain Island Charter since the school was incepted. He serves as the student body president, president of student government, co-vice president of the Best Buddies group, and is a team captain for varsity football and golf.

The Morehead-Cain Scholarship is the first merit scholarship program ever formally established in the United States, and has been awarded annually since 1951.

The scholarship also includes four years of summer leadership training, a discovery fund to research a major project of the student’s choice, as well as a paid study-abroad program.

A full list of students accepting the Morehead-Cain Scholarship will be announced in mid-April.

You can reach Eric Wildstein at 704-869-1828 or Twitter.com/TheGazetteEric.

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